Day 2 Is Always Better ... Myths (Part 3)

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello, this is Brennan Stacy with Let's Wind with Brennan Stacy, and we're back with our myth busting part three. I can't believe we're at part three. I know, and there's gonna be another one after this one. There's so many. It's crazy. It's Cray Craig Town. It is. Do you want to jump right in? This is one that your husband told us, and so I assume that maybe Mary Kay was out there telling him, be sure and eat all your vegetables, you'll grow hair on your chest. Did you ever hear that one? Did you tell your boys that?

SPEAKER_01 0:26

I did not tell my boys that and I'm allowed to say it really didn't work for Jeff. I don't know if he didn't eat his vegetables. He's just not a hairy person. Okay. And my kids, they didn't eat vegetables either, but they're hairy people. So I think that's more of a genetics.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Exactly. That's exactly what it is. It says it's related to testosterone levels and genetics. Yeah. But I'm sure there's a lot of moms out there that had kids who wouldn't eat vegetables and were desperate.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

They're desperate to get her boys to eat vegetables. So we'd say anything to get them to do that. This is funny, and Jeff, if you're listening, put on earmuffs, like on vacation and where he's running around with his shirt off. From the waist up, he looks like a 12-year-old boy. Oh no. Not from the waist down. From the waist up, he looks like a 12-year-old boy.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

I love you. I love it. I love you. Now I've heard this one a lot. When I was pregnant with Curry, more so, I had someone at work trying to tell me I was gonna have a boy because of the way I carried her. But they say that um gender can be dictated by how high or low your pregnancy is. It's a myth.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Yeah. I've heard that. Oh, you're carrying it this way or that way, and you're having a boy or a girl, and I had two boys.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Oh, yeah, I had two girls and they were both carried different. It says it goes by muscle tone, how many kids you've had before. The weight and the size of the baby position, yeah. Big fat babies. I know. They like to rumble around. I know, I like the big ones. Were you ever told step on a crack, break your mother's back?

SPEAKER_01 1:58

I've heard that. And yeah, I mean, back in the day, did you skip over? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

When you were young, like in elementary still get mad at your mom and hit that crack on purpose and root your foot around.

SPEAKER_01 2:10

Back in elementary school, weren't you told like and you jumped the cracks like in line to other places? Like, you don't want to break your back.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

I wonder if it was a caution thing. That's the only thing I found, but I I don't think that really makes sense there. Like you're telling them that to be cautious. I guess they anticipate every crack is unleveled concrete. Be careful where you walk or step. I know that one makes no kind of sense. I don't either. Now I've heard a lot of parents tell their kids this so they won't be scared that when they hear thunder, it's God bowling.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

I've heard that my whole life. I thought about this one, and then you being you, I didn't want to mention it about what you know because what? You know. I don't know. You know.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

You're scaring me.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

What are you gonna say? I've heard this in my lifetime as a child that when it thunders, it's God bowling, and when it rains, it's God crying. I mean it's and lightning is God made a strike with that bowling ball. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

And you believed it when you were little, didn't you?

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Yeah, when I was little, so I wouldn't be afraid of thunder.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Are you afraid of thunder? No. I know I'm not afraid of it. It's more like I worry about that. Damn it, the power's gonna go out. Yeah, I don't want that. Nobody wants a power. You can't believe that way. I know. Tyler, keep our power on. I know. What will we do without him? All right, now this one has always fascinated me, and there are people out there who believe that the nails and hair continue to grow after you die.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

I've never ever thought about this. My family doesn't do funerals. I I've never really been exposed or thought about that.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

I've always called myself the funeral queen because my, you know, grandmother was 40 when she had my mom. She had sisters. I kid you not, I would swear every six months I was at a funeral. Somebody was dying. I was raised around all these people in their 80s and 90s, and I was at a funeral all the time. We weren't doing the cremation like we are now. You know, they were laid out. My mom would buy me books to go to the funeral home to sit there during the visitations and things because I was so young. Wow. And give me something to do. But anyway, that is a myth. It's dehydration. The body starts to dehydrate. And so as it dehydrates, the skin retracts. Oh. Yeah, that's all it is. So it makes the nails look a little bit longer, but it's they're not really growing. Don't worry. They're not growing. They're not gonna get up and come after you. Not gonna dig those nails in you. But you know, bodies will make a noise. Really? Yeah. Every now and then you hear Yeah, they do. It's just air. Just air coming out their last little bits of Wow. I know. Now if it said Stacy. Would you die? You would. It's calling you. It's calling me. It's calling you. Here, present. I could do a whole episode on death, though. You know my fascination runs deep. That would be interesting. And and like when we were talking earlier about cardinals and things, but we're getting off the rails, but we could do a whole one on people believe that when they see hummingbirds and butterflies and cardinals, the pennies from heaven, that it's somebody reaching out to give you a sign that they're still close by. I love that. I do too. So let's save those. We'll save that. Put it in your pocket. It's in my pocket.

SPEAKER_01 5:06

We're saving those. Because I feel very close to that and emotional about that. So yeah, it's not a myth.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

It's a thing. Yes, that's a thing. So we'll get on that topic one day. Yeah, let's do it. I can't wait. All right, here's another one. I've heard you say this, and I'm thinking, woman. Have you heard people try and tell you that your blood is blue until it comes out? I have heard that. That because in your veins, when you look that's your vein.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

And no, my vein is blue. Blue.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Okay, so the blood is not. But what makes my vein blue? It's the color of it and the light. That blood is red. It's hemoglobin. It is red, it's never blue. You're not an octopus or a seahorse or whatever has blue blood out there. There's some other animals that have it, and it's not us. Okay So even though my veins are blue, my blood is still red. Yes. I don't know. It's more of a light refraction, I think, because old anatomy books show blue, and that's kind of I think that gives the misconception about that. But you talked about oxygen hitting it. But think about when you donate blood. That needle goes in. It doesn't hit oxygen and you watch it go in that bag. It's red when it comes through and out into that bag. You're right. When I donate blood, it comes out red. Yeah. It's red, it's always red. It's not green, it's not blue, you're not Dr. Spock. Damn. You're not. Oh, you mean I'm not special with blue blood? You're not that special. Damn it. All right. Now, this is one my grandmother always did and her sisters. Talking about grandma, knock on wood. Like if you say something that is supposed to bring you good luck or your luck is gonna change, you have to knock on wood so it doesn't become unlucky.

SPEAKER_01 6:36

True. True. Okay. I mean, I've heard that in my whole life too.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

Knock on wood. Yeah. Supposedly it's a myth, but a lot of people believe it. I do it too. If I say something good and I don't want it to go away, you know, knock on wood. And that comes back from um ancient beliefs that spirits live in trees. And what you're doing is waking them up to ask for protection. I love that. I do too. Yeah. I think little fairies and sprites or something. Yeah. I'm still gonna knock on the wood. Me too. I love good knock on the wood.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

All right. Now I think you told me this one, although you might argue and tell me you didn't. You don't give knives as gifts.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

You don't give knives? I don't remember telling you that.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

Okay. You never remember. Okay. But please tell me why. Because it severs the relationship. I guess spouses shouldn't do it and you shouldn't give them as anniversary gifts or anything. And I'm thinking back in the day I would have loved a good set of Ginzu knives. Nobody gave me any.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

So I mean, depending on who you want to cut up.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

I know. And talking about the gifts, you never give shoes to a lover. Have you ever bought Jeff's shoes?

SPEAKER_01 7:38

No. I mean, I mean, shoes he wears and likes and loves. I mean, maybe on Amazon I clicked a button like, oh, it's time for him to get new shoes, because he doesn't know when it's time for him to get new shoes.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

So you know it's not true, but the myth is you're giving him the tool to walk out of your life.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Bullshit.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

That boy ain't going nowhere. With his 12-year-old chest.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

You better edit that out. Sorry, Jeff. No, no, no. He knows I told him he looks like a 12-year-old boy from the waist up. I've never seen him.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

You got any beach pictures of him with no shirt on? Yeah. They're probably on my Facebook. Oh, I'm gonna have to go digging.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

Yeah. He is but he's so damn cute with the hat on. Oh. He looks like a 12-year-old boy and nothing many 12-year-old boys, but him looking like that disorable to me.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

When Scott would put a cap on, he looked very young with his glasses and everything and start calling me mom in the Walmart checkout.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

I love calling you mom.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

See? Mom! No. Alright. Have you ever heard never cut a baby's hair until they're a year old?

SPEAKER_01 8:39

I think I mean I lived by that because I don't think the boys had long, long hair, but no. What does that mean?

SPEAKER_00 8:45

It just means it's either bad luck or they're gonna have bad hair the rest of their lives. Oh shit. No, I know. I didn't do that to them. I know, that's kind of a weird one, but it came up in the list. Okay. And this one actually has some truth behind it. Do you believe that if you have heartburn, you'll have a hairy baby? I know that was definitely a thing. Yeah. People would say, oh, you have heartburn. Your baby's gonna have a whole head full of hair.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

And I I did have heartburn and both my kids had hair.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

Well, okay. All right, well, there's some truth on that. There was a study in 2006 that's in the medical journal Birth. Pegesterone, the hormone, actually can cause fetal hair growth. I know, who knew? And also cause acid reflux, causing heartburn. For the mom. It's not a hundred percent, but there is some truth to that one. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

I know. See, you never know what to believe. That's why we live all our lives, never knowing what the hell to believe. Because you think that would be a myth. Or that would be an old wives' tale. Or that's stupid.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

Yeah, I walk around that's stupid until I'm proven wrong. Like, oh, I'm sorry. This baby got hair. And I had a lot of heartburn. We were told all this stuff and now every Girl Scout, maybe Boy Scouts too, in America and I looked, it's a tradition. If smoke comes at you from a campfire, you say, I hate white rabbits. Have you heard that one? No. I wasn't a boy or a girl scout. I think any camping, that was just a tradition, a rite of passage. I didn't care. If that smoke blew in your face, you say I hate white rabbits and it'll redirect the wind. I was always told smoke falls beauty. So I had to just be like, I'm out. I know, I was choking on smoke all the time. I know I couldn't find a lot about that one. That's the funny thing, but there are there were tons of people like on Reddit that said, Oh, they grew up with that. It's like everybody knows it. Some people said that um they think the smoke resembles rabbit fur. And it would direct away from you. It's coming at you. But if you say you hate them, they'll go the other way. Oh. But there was a lot of it going on. Michelle, you need to chime in on this one. BS Studios at myyahoo.com. You know how to get them in here. Because I heard it when I was a scout, and then of course, as a scout mom, the kids were doing it. All right. Now here's another one that I think my grandmother just told me to keep me out of her hair.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Here we are.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

Yep. That four leaf clovers are lucky and that I should be in the yard looking for one. But they're only one in every 10,000.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

Really? That's the thing. Yeah, your grandma was trying to just get you to go do something else.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

Yeah, I'm sure she was. Crawl around the yard like a wild animal.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

You wanted that lucky clover.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

I wanted to it says each leaf represents faith, love, hope, and luck. I love those things.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

Faith, hope, love, and luck. Mm-hmm. And it's supposed to ward off illness. What else do you need in the world? That's it. Faith. Do you do faith? Uh in what? Just faith.

SPEAKER_00 11:23

Certain things. And then love. You have love. And then hope. Luck. Luck. Or do we do that one? Love, hope, luck, and faith. Do you do those? Should we count down three, two, one? Is this gonna sound wild? Is this gonna be hard to edit? I love it. No. I love it. Okay. Well, what about the itchy things? Have you heard of that? I don't know what itchy thing is. Okay. If your right palm itches, you're gonna get money. Oh yeah. If your left one itches, money's going out. If your nose itches, a visitor's coming. Yeah. Alright, and that one says it's probably just allergies. I've had itchy palms before, like they'll get all itchy right there in the middle. I've never gotten money out of it.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

No.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

I mean nothing special.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Nothing special, but I've heard like when your nose itches or somebody's on the way or there's a couple of other body parts that do things.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

I can't remember right now, but that means like somebody's coming or somebody's leaving or somebody's doing something and well, I think a lot of these myths just stem from our parents wanting us to behave or stay out of something or be cautious and look at what you're doing. You know, I think a lot of them have just went from generation to generation, and you know, you'll have good luck if you do this, and maybe that is giving hope. It might be false hope, but it's hope. You know, you knock on that wood, so you stay hopeful. Hopefully, hopeful. That's good. We want to be.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

We want to be hopeful.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

Well, we got one more before you go off the rails. Okay. All right. And this is one you texted me earlier. I thought, okay, I don't want to get too lengthy. And people are gonna have to do their own research because this fascinated me about the potatoes. Oh, yeah. You're supposed to put them in the refrigerator overnight. Somebody said 24 hours. I was looking online and my husband had been a type 1 diabetic, and I remember him saying he insisted on making the potatoes in the microwave. He would wash them, stab them with a fork, put them in there for 10 minutes, and there I started watching YouTube videos, and it really does something on spiking blood sugar and different things on the way you cook a potato and how you eat it. One of the people even said, I know I'm losing you now because the intent is to eat it cold. But that's why I guess a lot of people make potato salad out of it when they're monitoring different levels.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

I love the fact if I baked potatoes today and there's so many different ways to bake potatoes. I just made some cut in half and all this stuff, and I just put them in a big key's baggie. And then my hope is we'll eat them tomorrow or the next day, but that they're gonna be healthier tomorrow. You're not really supposed to bake them though. It's boil or microwave. Well, I'm fucking baked. But anyway, I still feel like I after after learning this, my baked potato they're cut in half. Does that count?

SPEAKER_00 13:57

Well, that saves you half of whatever we're doing. I know I'm not a medical professional, but I mean I was kind of fascinated and Scott always monitored, you know, what he ate. And I because I don't really like to cook, I thought, okay, that's a quick way to make potatoes. I thought it was brilliant. You know, I still do it.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

That's so fascinating. So I just feel like if we can make our potatoes the day before, I mean, even to make mashed potatoes or make okay, you said baked potatoes are not a thing, but mashed potatoes or potato salad. I love potato salads. I do too. I love potato just I mean, cooked, and then it can be chilled and I'll eat it. Yeah. I know you eat raw potatoes. I do. Now you're gonna stop that because now you know.

SPEAKER_00 14:42

I know. I feel like cooking it and chilling it is better. It some people do warm it back up. There's a certain degree, I can't remember what it is now that you can still bring it up to I just need to melt the cheese and taste gooey sour cream on it. I know we got a healthy potato, we're gonna put about a thousand calories on. There we go. I know, is that fucking it up? I know. I need to read more about that. Like I said, this is something that if anybody's interested, they really need to research it because there's a lot on it. And I was fascinated and ran out of time.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

You know, watching those videos of different people and looking it up, and I was like, oh, stuff's starting to click.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

I know. Well, I mean, I just had heard that in my life somewhere, and I was like, oh, I had to send it to my research department. I didn't research it very well. Send it to Brenda, I was like, hey, what do you know about this? I know So I'd heard it, and um, but anything basically, anything you make today is gonna be taste better tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

I think so too. There's a lot of things that are better on day two.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Is that a myth? I don't know. It's just a it's a fact. I think pizza's better on day two. It's a f yeah, it's all a fact. Oh yeah. I mean chili, all yeah, all the things are better after they, I don't know, marinate or simmer overnight. You know, it's like you have it the first day and it's like, oh, this is really good. But then you have it next day and it's like, dang. Like that wine you're drinking. I like that wine I'm drinking. I know, with a lot of fruit in it.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

There you go. I mean the fruit.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

There you go. That's healthy. I'm having a good time. That's right. I got healthy fruit in my wine.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

That's right. Well, we're gonna ask for any myths for if you know where they came from and where they originated from, we'd really like to hear that.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:29

You know, feel free to reach out to us at BS Studios at myyahoo.com if it's from a different culture. What do you think, Stacey?

SPEAKER_01 16:35

We want to hear country, different culture, different country, different anything. We want to know what you're thinking about. I know.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

What were you raised with? What did grandma tell you?

SPEAKER_01 16:45

Yeah, because some of ours are crazy.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

Oh no, the salt. Remember the salt over the shoulder kind of thing? She had a bunch of them. And my grandmother wasn't, I don't know, I was gonna use the term witchy. She wasn't like a witchy person to have all these. It's funny that when I think back now, she had a lot of superstitions and things going on that didn't seem out of the ordinary at the time. She was more spiritual than I thought.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Love that. Love that for us. We have to do some digging. I will. I hope everybody else will do some digging and share their shit with us. I know. Join us for part four. Help us create it. Yeah. We want you to be a part of part four because we gotta we gotta know what you want to know. We gotta know what you know. That's true. We wanna know what you know. What do you know? We wanna know what you know because we we're just you know. We we don't know what we don't know. Say that all the time. Unless wine, we're bringing Stacey. Bye.